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[Arpege92]

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Have you ever seen the Dallas City Council?

Atlanta used to draw businesses seeking to relocate in Dallas away from Dallas by showing them video of Dallas City Council meetings. Al Lipscomb and Diane Ragsdale were the two top clowns.

[Danette]

If we have to pay reparations to far removed relatives of slaves then we ought to take it further and be able to put relatives of current prisioners in jail, too for instance.

Since they want to claim liability for their past relatives then they should also claim responsibility for their current relatives.

[tcuoohjohn]

There is a very serious legal question than needs to be answered before reparations can even be discussed properly. Under what theory of law is " victimhood" an inheritable asset?

Slaves should have been compensated for their labor. I fail to see where you inherit the victim status of your ancestors.

I fail to see where The British Government should compensate me for their failure to compensate my Great Great Grandfather for his land in Avoca, Ireland which was expropriated.

[reg45]

Since the Democrat party was the Party of Slavery, only Democrats should have to pay for reparations!

[muawiyah]

More "white" Americans have a black slave ancestor than do "black" Americans.

[taxcontrol]

I beleive that every living slave who suffered in bondage after such was made illegal is entitled to reparations.

[cake_crumb]

Once again: throughout human history, there has been slavery. The conqueror enslaved the conquered. Endebted people, criminals and the politically incorrect were punished by being thrown into slavery. Slavery is still a fact in Africa, mostly perpetrated by Arabs and smiled upon by the UN. Every human being on the planet has ancestors who were slaves, because everyone's ancestors were conquered at some point in human history. Therefore, each and every one of us owes reparations to each and every other human being on Earth.

If that legal and true argument doesn't work...I can dig up some Irish ancestors, so can I sue the British government for reparations?

[Viking2002]

Give them all their forty acres and a mule.

In Liberia.

[quadrant]

The demand for reparations from a segment of the black community illustrates their lack of contact with reality.

They have deluded themselves and their supporters into believing that the America of 2004 will pay reparations. It is a demonstration of their lack of contact with their fellow countrymen. From what I've heard from these people, they talk to themselves and to their supporters and listen to no one who does not agree with them.

They are, of course, free to engage in this fantasy, but it would be kind if someone would tell them to forget this nonsense.
Its doubtful anyone will. The left is too afraid of a poilitcal backlash (not to mention fearful of being called a racist) and the right doesn't care what a group a cranks do with their time.